The fee is paid as compensation for using public property, right of ways, etc. for their privately owned cable TV network that is operated for profit. I would prefer not subsidizing Comcast's network with my taxes, so I'm perfectly happy with making Comcast (or their subscribers) pay for it.
Of course, in my opinion it's just another cost of doing business that should just be rolled into the bill. But if they decide they must break it out, they need to be perfectly clear that they are doing so and be able to tell you exactly how much the fee is going to be. The long list of various tacked on fees you don't know about until your bill arrives is total bullshit that needs to be stopped.
You're using a browser that's created by the world's largest advertising company. Why do you think they would even create a browser? Why do you think Chrome is bundled with so many other installers that try to trick you into installing it? Of course it's spying on you.
It really amazes me that anyone actually uses Chrome.
Apparently that's one of the reasons Windows Update is so dreadfully slow on Windows 7. svchost.exe querying the same static information over and over, millions and millions of times....
The Linksys WRT54G has the same problem as the Raspberry Pi, in the sense that different revisions run very different hardware and not all revisions are compatible with each other. Which of course is confusing as hell since Linksys links to reuse the same model number over and over for some reason.
Though I would argue that the Pi is a general purpose computer. Sure, many of them end up embedded in some application, but I've seen the same thing done to standard off-the-shelf desktop machines running the regular desktop version of Windows.
I assume they just never quite fully charge the battery, and also never let it discharge all the way though software. So the battery will likely last longer because it will go through less extreme charge cycles, which could actually result in less warranty costs for the 60 kwh model. Though I'll guess is any savings to Tesla is much less than the price difference between the models.
Keep in mind that they are doing this to Windows 8.1 too. Windows 8.1 is still in mainstream support, so not supporting current CPUs in an OS that's under mainstream support is total bullshit.
That's true, but as a human there are some roads I just won't drive on, or some conditions I where won't go out in. But if people do go out in those conditions (and aren't viewed as completely nuts), then the AI will have to handle them if you take away the controls.
The problem is even if you are paying attention to what's going on, by the time you realize "oh shit, it doesn't see that stalled car in my lane!!!" it may be too late. If I have to pay attention and constantly second-guess what the AI is doing, I'd rather just drive the car myself, possibly with an AI backup that can react if I fail to notice something.
That's my thought too. There's just way too many corner cases and unforeseen circumstances out there. We may eventually get there, but I'm guessing we'll be stuck at level 3 for quite a while, with vehicles that can really only be autonomous in limited, well-defined situations. Even with your ferry loading situation, even if an AI was capable of understanding what it needed to do, it may just be quicker and easier for a human to take control and just do it rather than having to figure out how to tell the AI exactly what it needs to do. On a ferry with dozens of vehicles, all it would take is one car where the AI just doesn't "get it" and refuses to move to cause a big problem. That's one of the reasons I don't see myself ever buying a car that doesn't have a steering wheel or some way for me to manually drive it.
The biggest "bug" I can think of is the whole Superfetch algorithm is way too aggressive. It's not technically a bug - it's likely working as designed, but it's also responsible for a lot of the performance complaints in Vista. Microsoft turned it way down in Windows 7, and could have pushed out a patch to Vista to do the same, but never did.
The other big bug is Windows Explorer will randomly hang and shit itself, but it does the same thing in Windows 7.
I guess the other bug is the 497 day bug, which kills the network stack after 497 days of uptime (for reasons much like the 49.7 day bug in Windows 95), forcing a reboot. I've actually hit that one in Vista - yes, my all time personal Windows uptime record is currently held by a Vista box.
I'm pretty sure he meant the "Home" market. Windows 2000 was the predecessor to Windows XP Pro. Windows ME was the predecessor to Windows XP Home.
You could certainly buy Windows 2000 and run it at home, and running Windows 2000 had huge advantages over 98/ME, unlike in XP where the Home edition is basically the same as the Pro edition except for a handful of features most home users never miss like being able to join a domain. On the other hand, Windows 2000 was expensive (most people I knew running it weren't legit) and the requirements were also much higher. If you had 64MB of ram, Windows 2000 will still run but you'd be better off sticking with 98.
Exactly. It's not difficult to a keep an out of date Windows machine secure as long as you are smart about it. I've run Windows XP past the expiration date, and if you don't want Microsoft's telemetry in Windows 7/8 you've basically been running unpatched as of last October when they started the monthly update rollups.
Otherwise, I'd try Linux.
Besides, why won't it run a newer version of Windows? I have an old laptop running Windows 10, despite some of hardware only having Vista drivers available. I was actually a bit surprised, but the Vista drivers actually installed in Windows 10 and worked without issue. If the 64-bit version gives you grief, try the 32-bit version, which I have seen accept drivers originally written for Windows 2000.
Well, the worst is all the drive-by installs Google tries to do. I don't know how many times I've had to uncheck some obscure checkbox to keep Google's spyware off of my Windows computers.
I don't get why anyone would put with a search engine that throws CAPTCHAs at you when you try to use it. Given how lousy Google's search results are nowadays, it seems pretty easy to make the switch to someone else. I've never seen a CAPTCHA using DuckDuckGo, but I imagine even Bing would be an improvement. And if for some reason you like Google's results, there's always Startpage.
Browsing the internet through TOR is downright painful now thanks to all of the CAPTCHA garbage. Besides Google, Cloudfare is another major offender. Though at least as far as search goes, you can use DuckDuckGo.
A surprising large number of accidents though don't involve colliding with another vehicles. Losing control, going off the road, etc. SUVs fair pretty poorly in those kind of accidents - they are more likely to get into them due to their heavier weight and poorer handling in the first place, and are far more likely to roll over in these kind of incidents. That balances out the other types of accidents where they do well, like running head-on into a car that's half their size. So in the end SUVs aren't really any safer per mile traveled, and often fair worse against higher-end cars with the most advanced safety features.
Given their current abuses of power, they would think it perfectly fine to detain someone who they thought might be using a duress password until that person coughs up their "real" password. Whether or not they would know for sure wouldn't be important to them.
That's why even though these technical solutions are nice, the only way to solve the real problem is to stop these abuses of power.
I assume cosmic rays is also why Outlook constantly pops up that "Need Password" prompt. All this time I was assuming it was a bug introduced back in Office 2007!
Really? From what I can see, the new stick houses around here are still nailed together. Really, the basic construction hasn't changed much in a 100 years.
Maybe the pre-fab stuff, but I'm under the impression a lot that uses steel and is probably riveted together.
Sure it isn't. At the very least, the driver can shut off the engine, and restart it when the light is about to change.
You may have also noticed that driver also shuts off the engine anytime they leave the truck. I'm not sure if it's because of saving fuel, or to keep thieves from jacking the truck, or both - but a truck delivering packages in a neighborhood can have the engine stopped/started dozens of times so it's not like the engine isn't built for it.
The problem with Windows 10 (and Windows 8) is that it requires the NX bit be present on the processor. The NX bit came in around the same time as Intel was making the transition to 64-bit, so while there are a small handful of 32-bit processors that can run Windows 10, the vast majority of 32-bit Windows 10 systems are going to be running on 64-bit hardware because it won't boot on most 32-bit systems. So while you can run Tails (for now) on that Socket 478 P4 or Athlon XP, you can't run Windows 10 on it, even if the hardware is otherwise powerful enough.
Also, as far as I know the requirement for signed drivers is only for 64-bit Windows. Which makes sense, as the 32-bit version of Windows 10 is basically the "compatibility mode" version of Windows that you can try to use for all that old, crufty software and hardware that simply will never work on 64-bit.
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And if you remember that the above applies to the person who likes to throw the term "SJW" around, then it makes even more sense.
The fee is paid as compensation for using public property, right of ways, etc. for their privately owned cable TV network that is operated for profit. I would prefer not subsidizing Comcast's network with my taxes, so I'm perfectly happy with making Comcast (or their subscribers) pay for it.
Of course, in my opinion it's just another cost of doing business that should just be rolled into the bill. But if they decide they must break it out, they need to be perfectly clear that they are doing so and be able to tell you exactly how much the fee is going to be. The long list of various tacked on fees you don't know about until your bill arrives is total bullshit that needs to be stopped.
When does that ever pop up? Chrome's installer (at least on Windows) is completely silent.
You're using a browser that's created by the world's largest advertising company. Why do you think they would even create a browser? Why do you think Chrome is bundled with so many other installers that try to trick you into installing it? Of course it's spying on you.
It really amazes me that anyone actually uses Chrome.
Apparently that's one of the reasons Windows Update is so dreadfully slow on Windows 7. svchost.exe querying the same static information over and over, millions and millions of times....
The Linksys WRT54G has the same problem as the Raspberry Pi, in the sense that different revisions run very different hardware and not all revisions are compatible with each other. Which of course is confusing as hell since Linksys links to reuse the same model number over and over for some reason.
Though I would argue that the Pi is a general purpose computer. Sure, many of them end up embedded in some application, but I've seen the same thing done to standard off-the-shelf desktop machines running the regular desktop version of Windows.
I assume they just never quite fully charge the battery, and also never let it discharge all the way though software. So the battery will likely last longer because it will go through less extreme charge cycles, which could actually result in less warranty costs for the 60 kwh model. Though I'll guess is any savings to Tesla is much less than the price difference between the models.
Pale Moon is great, but I don't think it's had any effect on what Mozilla has been doing to Firefox.
Keep in mind that they are doing this to Windows 8.1 too. Windows 8.1 is still in mainstream support, so not supporting current CPUs in an OS that's under mainstream support is total bullshit.
That's true, but as a human there are some roads I just won't drive on, or some conditions I where won't go out in. But if people do go out in those conditions (and aren't viewed as completely nuts), then the AI will have to handle them if you take away the controls.
The problem is even if you are paying attention to what's going on, by the time you realize "oh shit, it doesn't see that stalled car in my lane!!!" it may be too late. If I have to pay attention and constantly second-guess what the AI is doing, I'd rather just drive the car myself, possibly with an AI backup that can react if I fail to notice something.
That's my thought too. There's just way too many corner cases and unforeseen circumstances out there. We may eventually get there, but I'm guessing we'll be stuck at level 3 for quite a while, with vehicles that can really only be autonomous in limited, well-defined situations. Even with your ferry loading situation, even if an AI was capable of understanding what it needed to do, it may just be quicker and easier for a human to take control and just do it rather than having to figure out how to tell the AI exactly what it needs to do. On a ferry with dozens of vehicles, all it would take is one car where the AI just doesn't "get it" and refuses to move to cause a big problem. That's one of the reasons I don't see myself ever buying a car that doesn't have a steering wheel or some way for me to manually drive it.
The biggest "bug" I can think of is the whole Superfetch algorithm is way too aggressive. It's not technically a bug - it's likely working as designed, but it's also responsible for a lot of the performance complaints in Vista. Microsoft turned it way down in Windows 7, and could have pushed out a patch to Vista to do the same, but never did.
The other big bug is Windows Explorer will randomly hang and shit itself, but it does the same thing in Windows 7.
I guess the other bug is the 497 day bug, which kills the network stack after 497 days of uptime (for reasons much like the 49.7 day bug in Windows 95), forcing a reboot. I've actually hit that one in Vista - yes, my all time personal Windows uptime record is currently held by a Vista box.
I'm pretty sure he meant the "Home" market. Windows 2000 was the predecessor to Windows XP Pro. Windows ME was the predecessor to Windows XP Home.
You could certainly buy Windows 2000 and run it at home, and running Windows 2000 had huge advantages over 98/ME, unlike in XP where the Home edition is basically the same as the Pro edition except for a handful of features most home users never miss like being able to join a domain. On the other hand, Windows 2000 was expensive (most people I knew running it weren't legit) and the requirements were also much higher. If you had 64MB of ram, Windows 2000 will still run but you'd be better off sticking with 98.
Exactly. It's not difficult to a keep an out of date Windows machine secure as long as you are smart about it. I've run Windows XP past the expiration date, and if you don't want Microsoft's telemetry in Windows 7/8 you've basically been running unpatched as of last October when they started the monthly update rollups.
Otherwise, I'd try Linux.
Besides, why won't it run a newer version of Windows? I have an old laptop running Windows 10, despite some of hardware only having Vista drivers available. I was actually a bit surprised, but the Vista drivers actually installed in Windows 10 and worked without issue. If the 64-bit version gives you grief, try the 32-bit version, which I have seen accept drivers originally written for Windows 2000.
Well, the worst is all the drive-by installs Google tries to do. I don't know how many times I've had to uncheck some obscure checkbox to keep Google's spyware off of my Windows computers.
Actually, a Kill-a-watt isn't that useful for that kind of thing. Kill-a-Watt's are 115V only, and the biggest energy hogs are usually 230 V.
Though if I had one, I'd stick the Kill-a-watt on the fridge as it almost certainly is still a significant fraction of the bill.
I don't get why anyone would put with a search engine that throws CAPTCHAs at you when you try to use it. Given how lousy Google's search results are nowadays, it seems pretty easy to make the switch to someone else. I've never seen a CAPTCHA using DuckDuckGo, but I imagine even Bing would be an improvement. And if for some reason you like Google's results, there's always Startpage.
Browsing the internet through TOR is downright painful now thanks to all of the CAPTCHA garbage. Besides Google, Cloudfare is another major offender. Though at least as far as search goes, you can use DuckDuckGo.
A surprising large number of accidents though don't involve colliding with another vehicles. Losing control, going off the road, etc. SUVs fair pretty poorly in those kind of accidents - they are more likely to get into them due to their heavier weight and poorer handling in the first place, and are far more likely to roll over in these kind of incidents. That balances out the other types of accidents where they do well, like running head-on into a car that's half their size. So in the end SUVs aren't really any safer per mile traveled, and often fair worse against higher-end cars with the most advanced safety features.
Given their current abuses of power, they would think it perfectly fine to detain someone who they thought might be using a duress password until that person coughs up their "real" password. Whether or not they would know for sure wouldn't be important to them.
That's why even though these technical solutions are nice, the only way to solve the real problem is to stop these abuses of power.
I assume cosmic rays is also why Outlook constantly pops up that "Need Password" prompt. All this time I was assuming it was a bug introduced back in Office 2007!
Really? From what I can see, the new stick houses around here are still nailed together. Really, the basic construction hasn't changed much in a 100 years.
Maybe the pre-fab stuff, but I'm under the impression a lot that uses steel and is probably riveted together.
Sure it isn't. At the very least, the driver can shut off the engine, and restart it when the light is about to change.
You may have also noticed that driver also shuts off the engine anytime they leave the truck. I'm not sure if it's because of saving fuel, or to keep thieves from jacking the truck, or both - but a truck delivering packages in a neighborhood can have the engine stopped/started dozens of times so it's not like the engine isn't built for it.
The problem with Windows 10 (and Windows 8) is that it requires the NX bit be present on the processor. The NX bit came in around the same time as Intel was making the transition to 64-bit, so while there are a small handful of 32-bit processors that can run Windows 10, the vast majority of 32-bit Windows 10 systems are going to be running on 64-bit hardware because it won't boot on most 32-bit systems. So while you can run Tails (for now) on that Socket 478 P4 or Athlon XP, you can't run Windows 10 on it, even if the hardware is otherwise powerful enough.
Also, as far as I know the requirement for signed drivers is only for 64-bit Windows. Which makes sense, as the 32-bit version of Windows 10 is basically the "compatibility mode" version of Windows that you can try to use for all that old, crufty software and hardware that simply will never work on 64-bit.